Dung Feeders
124 species with this diet
African Dung Beetle
Scarabaeus rugosus
A medium-sized, roughly textured black roller beetle found in southern African sandy habitats. It has prominent teeth on...
African Hide Beetle
Trox sabulosus
A small, rough-textured beetle covered in soil particles and debris that provide excellent camouflage. Its elytra have r...
Alpine Dung Beetle
Geotrupes alpinus
A sturdy, dark dung beetle of high-altitude pastures grazed by livestock. It buries dung underground where its larvae de...
Amazonian Scarab
Phanaeus chalcomelas
A strikingly colorful dung beetle with metallic green, copper, and blue hues. Males have a prominent curved horn on the ...
Asian Atlas Dung Beetle
Catharsius pithecius
A large black tunneling dung beetle from Southeast Asia with two stout pronotal horns in males. It rapidly constructs de...
Atlas Scarab
Scarabaeus atlas
A large, matte black roller dung beetle with a broad, shield-like head. It is closely related to the sacred scarab and i...
Australian Horned Dung Beetle
Onthophagus australis
A small brown tunneling dung beetle native to Australia with minor horns in males. It was one of the first dung beetle s...
Autumn Aphodius
Aphodius autumnalis
A small, dark reddish-brown dweller dung beetle that is most active in autumn. It has a shiny, rounded body with finely ...
Binodis Dung Beetle
Onthophagus binodis
A small, brown-black tunneling dung beetle with two small nodules on the male head. It was introduced to Australia from ...
Black Aphodius
Aphodius fimetarius
A small dweller dung beetle with a black head and pronotum and reddish-brown elytra. It lives directly within dung pats ...
Black Dung Beetle
Copris lunaris
A robust black dung beetle found across Europe and parts of Asia. Males bear a single curved horn on the head and exhibi...
Blackburn Earth-Boring Beetle
Blackburnium reichei
A small, globular earth-boring dung beetle with a dark brown to black body. Endemic to Australia, it processes marsupial...
Blue Nawab
Polyura schreiber
A powerful and fast-flying butterfly with a pale bluish-white upper surface and intricate brown and orange undersides. I...
Blue-frosted Banner
Catonephele numilia
A sexually dimorphic butterfly where males are velvety black with bright orange bands and females are dark brown with ye...
Bolboceras Dung Beetle
Bolboceras armiger
A stout, rounded earth-boring beetle with a yellowish-brown body and a prominent horn on the male head. It digs deep bur...
Bright Green Canthon
Canthon virens
A small, vivid metallic green roller dung beetle found in Brazil and neighboring countries. Its bright coloring is unusu...
Broad-Horned Onitis
Onitis caffer
A large, dark brown to black tunneler with massive forelegs in males. The prothorax is greatly enlarged. It digs deep ve...
Broad-Toothed Scarab
Scarabaeus laticollis
A medium-sized, glossy black roller dung beetle with a broad pronotum and strong clypeal teeth. Common across Mediterran...
Brutus Charaxes
Charaxes brutus
A large and powerful butterfly with black and white banding on the upper wings and intricate reddish-brown patterns bene...
Bush Fly
Musca vetustissima
Australia's most iconic nuisance fly, swarming around faces to feed on moisture. It breeds in cattle dung across the Aus...
Cicatricosus Scarab
Scarabaeus cicatricosus
A medium-sized dark roller with a rough, pitted exoskeleton that gives it a scarred appearance. It inhabits coastal sand...
Common Euphaedra
Euphaedra medon
A forest-dwelling butterfly with deep orange-brown wings and distinctive blue-purple iridescent bands. It is one of the ...
Coppery Tunneler
Onthophagus ferox
A small, coppery-brown tunneling dung beetle native to Africa, now established in Australia. Males have a pair of backwa...
Cruiser Butterfly
Vindula dejone
A large butterfly with warm orange wings marked with black spots and lines. Males are bright tawny-orange while females ...
Daffodil Aphodius
Aphodius fossor
A large, entirely shiny black dweller dung beetle with a convex, robust body. Despite being classified as a dweller, it ...
Delta Dung Beetle
Deltochilum orbiculare
A matte black roller dung beetle with a rounded body and distinctively flattened outer edges of the elytra. It rolls dun...
Demon Charaxes
Charaxes lucretius
A large forest Charaxes with deep black upperside marked with blue iridescence in males. Females are larger and browner....
Desert Termite
Gnathamitermes tubiformans
A subterranean termite that builds mud tubes over dead grass and cow dung in desert environments. It plays a critical ro...
Dichotomius Dung Beetle
Dichotomius carolinus
A large, robust black tunneling dung beetle with a distinctive bifurcate (forked) horn in males. Females have a transver...
Digitonthophagus Dung Beetle
Digitonthophagus gazella
A small to medium, tan to brown tunneling dung beetle originally from Africa, now among the most widely distributed dung...
Dung Beetle
Scarabaeus sacer
Sacred to ancient Egyptians who associated them with the sun god Ra. They roll balls of dung for food and breeding. Navi...
Dung Beetle (Rainbow)
Phanaeus vindex
One of the most beautiful dung beetles with iridescent metallic copper, green, and blue coloring. Males have a prominent...
Dung Beetle Navigator
Scarabaeus lamarcki
A medium-sized dung beetle from South Africa that navigates using celestial cues. It has been a key species in understan...
Dung Roller Beetle
Kheper nigroaeneus
A large dung beetle that navigates using the Milky Way to roll balls in straight lines....
Dung-loving Rove Beetle
Philonthus marginatus
A medium-sized, shiny black rove beetle with distinctly margined elytra found commonly in dung and compost. It is one of...
Eastern Forest Dung Beetle
Onthophagus hecate
A small, dark brown to black tunneling dung beetle common in eastern North American forests. Males have a short median h...
Elephant Dung Beetle
Heliocopris dilloni
A very large black dung beetle that specializes in elephant dung. Males have a prominent curved horn on the thorax....
Farmyard Midge
Culicoides nubeculosus
A tiny biting midge that breeds in mud contaminated by dung or sewage. Adults suck blood from horses and cattle. Can tra...
Femoralis Dung Beetle
Pachylomerus femoralis
The largest African roller dung beetle, with a stout black body and massively thickened hind femora. It can roll dung ba...
Flat-Headed Dung Beetle
Paragymnopleurus maurus
A medium-sized shiny black roller dung beetle with a distinctively flat clypeal margin. It is highly active during the d...
Flat-Horned Dung Beetle
Onthophagus planicornis
A small, dark tunneling dung beetle with laterally flattened horns in major males. Found in tropical Africa, it is a rap...
Flightless Dung Beetle
Circellium bacchus
The largest flightless dung beetle in the world, endemic to South Africa. It is now restricted to a few remaining habita...
Fluted-horn Dung Beetle
Copris elphenor
A large black dung beetle with a prominent curved horn on the male's head. It buries dung balls underground to provision...
Forest Roller
Canthon quinquemaculatus
A small, dark roller dung beetle with five pale spots on the elytra. Found in South American forests, it is diurnal and ...
Four-spotted Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus quadripunctatus
A medium-sized dung beetle with four distinctive pale spots on its dark elytra. It is one of the few Helictopleurus spec...
Four-Spotted Hister Beetle
Hister quadrimaculatus
A glossy black hister beetle with four orange-red spots on its wing cases. It is associated with mammal dung in pastures...
Freyer's Purple Emperor
Apatura metis
A large, powerful butterfly closely related to the purple emperor but restricted to river valleys. Males display a brill...
Fungicola Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus fungicola
A small dung beetle with an extraordinary pair of cephalic horns in males, revealed through genomic and morphological st...
Gazelle Scarab
Onthophagus gazella
A small dung beetle originally from Africa, now established across multiple continents. It is one of the most widely int...
Giant African Dung Roller
Scarabaeus ambiguus
A large, robust matte black roller dung beetle found in East African grasslands. It has powerful clypeal teeth for cutti...
Giant Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus giganteus
The largest member of the endemic Helictopleurus genus, with a robust body and prominent cephalic horns in males. Its da...
Giant Gymnopleurus
Gymnopleurus virens
A medium-sized roller dung beetle with a coppery-green sheen and a nearly spherical body shape. It is a rapid roller, mo...
Giant Neotropical Ball Roller
Canthon aequinoctialis
A medium-sized, matte black roller dung beetle common in Central and South American forests. It is one of the most abund...
Gigas Dung Beetle
Heliocopris gigas
A massive glossy black tunneling dung beetle with powerful digging forelegs. Males have a broad cephalic horn. This spec...
Gilded Roller
Kheper aegyptiorum
A large, metallic dark green to copper roller dung beetle found across African savannas. Males compete fiercely for poss...
Goatweed Leafwing
Anaea andria
A bright orange butterfly whose angular wing shape and mottled brown underside create a perfect dead-leaf disguise when ...
Golden Rove Beetle
Platydracus stercorarius
A striking rove beetle with dense golden setae covering its pronotum and elytra, giving it a shimmering appearance. It i...
Goliath Beetle
Goliathus goliatus
One of the heaviest insects on Earth. Males have a Y-shaped horn on the head. Larvae can weigh up to 100 grams and requi...
Great Nawab
Polyura eudamippus
A large and powerful butterfly with pale green-white uppersides and richly marked brown and olive undersides. The hindwi...
Great Purple Emperor
Sasakia charonda
Japan's national butterfly, known as 'o-murasaki' in Japanese. Males display a stunning purple iridescence on their wing...
Green Grooved Dung Beetle
Phanaeus difformis
A metallic green and copper tunneling dung beetle with a prominent male horn that is slightly offset to one side. The pr...
Green Metallic Tunneler
Onitis alexis
A medium-sized tunneling dung beetle with a metallic green pronotum and dark brown elytra. Males have an enlarged protho...
Green-veined Charaxes
Charaxes candiope
A large charaxes with orange upperwings and distinctive green-veined underwings. It is common along forested rivers and ...
Horned Dung Beetle
Onthophagus taurus
The strongest insect on Earth relative to body size — can pull 1,141 times its own body weight. Males have curved horns ...
Igneus Rainbow Scarab
Phanaeus igneus
A brilliantly metallic green, blue, and red tunneling dung beetle of the southeastern United States. Males have a long, ...
Ivory-Spotted Dung Beetle
Euoniticellus pallipes
A small, pale brown tunneling dung beetle with ivory-colored legs. Native to Africa, it has been introduced to several c...
Japanese Dung Beetle
Copris pecuarius
A tunneling dung beetle found in Japan and Korea that provisions underground brood chambers with dung balls. Males have ...
Kissing Bug
Rhodnius prolixus
The principal vector of Chagas disease in Latin America. Named because it bites sleeping humans near the mouth and eyes,...
Lamarcks Sacred Scarab
Kheper lamarcki
A large glossy black dung beetle with subtle purple and green iridescence. It constructs large brood balls from elephant...
Lined Rove Beetle
Tachinus signatus
A medium-sized rove beetle with distinctly patterned elytra bearing lighter margins. It is commonly found in fungal habi...
Littoral Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus littoralis
A dung beetle adapted to coastal and lowland environments, distinguished from forest relatives by its slightly flatter b...
Malagasy Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus neoamplicollis
A medium-sized, dark-bodied tunneling dung beetle endemic to Madagascar. Males have pronotal ridges. It processes lemur ...
Malagasy Peyrieras's Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus peyrierasi
A small to medium forest dung beetle named after the Malagasy naturalist Andre Peyrieras. It has a dark, heavily sculptu...
Malagasy Scarab
Scarabaeus radama
A robust dung-rolling scarab beetle named after the Malagasy king Radama. It has a broad, rounded body with a dark metal...
Marsyas Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus marsyas
A compact, dark-bodied dung beetle that has transitioned from forest to open habitats. It has a smooth, rounded pronotum...
Mexican Dung Beetle
Phanaeus mexicanus
A large, metallic green and coppery tunneling dung beetle found from Mexico to Central America. Males have a robust, bac...
Minotaur Beetle
Typhaeus typhoeus
A robust, black beetle where males sport three forward-pointing horns on the thorax. It buries rabbit dung in deep under...
Molossus Scarab
Catharsius molossus
A large, robust black tunneling dung beetle found across South and Southeast Asia. Males have a prominent curved horn on...
Moon-Horned Dung Beetle
Oxysternon festivum
A large, dark metallic green or black tunneler with a distinctive crescent-shaped pronotal horn in males. The underside ...
Naga Nawab Butterfly
Polyura nepenthes
A powerful fast-flying butterfly with green-washed wings and short tails on the hindwings. It is drawn to rotting fruit ...
Neotropical Scarab Beetle
Coprophanaeus lancifer
The largest dung beetle in the Americas with a striking metallic blue-black body. Males bear a long curved horn on the h...
Noon Fly
Mesembrina meridiana
A large stocky black fly with bright orange wing bases. It basks in sunshine on walls and fences at midday....
Nordic Dor Beetle
Geotrupes stercorarius
A large, rounded, metallic blue-black dung beetle with ridged elytra. Adults dig deep burrows beneath animal dung for eg...
Pecuarius Onitis
Onitis pecuarius
A medium-sized, dark brown to black tunneling dung beetle with strong forelegs. It is a nocturnal species that construct...
Poplar Admiral
Limenitis populi
Europe's largest nymphalid butterfly with broad dark wings bearing white bands and orange submarginal crescents. It is s...
Proagoderus Dung Beetle
Proagoderus tersidorsis
A medium-sized, dark metallic tunneling dung beetle with elaborate pronotal horns in major males. Found in African savan...
Red-Shouldered Aphodius
Aphodius rufipes
A medium-sized dweller dung beetle that is entirely black except for reddish-brown leg joints. It is strongly attracted ...
Red-tailed Flesh Fly
Sarcophaga haemorrhoidalis
A large gray flesh fly with a distinctive red-tipped abdomen. It deposits live larvae on meat, wounds, and feces....
Rhinoceros Dung Beetle
Heliocopris dominus
A large nocturnal dung beetle found in the forests of Southeast Asia. It constructs enormous brood balls from elephant d...
Rough-collared Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus rudicollis
An exclusively forest-dwelling dung beetle with a rough, heavily punctured pronotum that gives it its name. It is dark b...
Ruby-Legged Dung Beetle
Onthophagus medius
A small, dark bronze tunneling dung beetle with reddish-brown legs found in parts of Africa and Asia. Males have a pair ...
Sagittarius Dung Beetle
Onthophagus sagittarius
A medium-sized dark brown tunneler with a distinctive arrow-shaped projection on the male head. It was introduced to Aus...
Saphirinus Dung Beetle
Coprophanaeus saphirinus
A stunning metallic sapphire-blue tunneling dung beetle with brilliant iridescence. Males have a prominent horn. It is o...
Satanas Dung Beetle
Dichotomius satanas
A large, pitch-black tunneling dung beetle with a deeply forked cephalic horn in males that gives it a devilish appearan...
Sculptured Rove Beetle
Oxytelus sculptus
A tiny dung-associated rove beetle with a distinctly sculptured thorax and short elytra. It has become nearly cosmopolit...
Shaggy Rove Beetle
Emus hirtus
A spectacular, large rove beetle covered in dense black and yellow fur-like pubescence, resembling a bumblebee. It is as...
Sicardi's Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus sicardi
A compact forest dung beetle with a glossy black body and strongly punctured elytra. Males have a small but distinct cep...
Silenus Oxysternon
Oxysternon silenus
A large, robust dark green to black tunneling dung beetle with a broad thorax and powerful forelegs. Males bear a cephal...
Sinuate-horned Dung Beetle
Helictopleurus sinuatocornis
A medium-sized dung beetle named for the sinuate or wavy shape of the male's cephalic horn. Its body is dark brown with ...
Sisyphus Dung Beetle
Sisyphus schaefferi
A small, black roller dung beetle with very long, slender hind legs adapted for ball rolling. Named after the mythologic...
Small Australian Tunneler
Onthophagus parvus
A tiny, brown tunneling dung beetle native to Australia. It is one of the few native Australian species adapted to proce...
Smooth Hister Beetle
Margarinotus striola
A compact, highly polished black beetle with fine elytral striations. It is one of the most common dung-dwelling hister ...
Sordid Dung Beetle
Aphodius sordidus
A small, dark brown to black dweller dung beetle with yellowish-brown elytral margins. It is a cosmopolitan species foun...
South American Dung Beetle
Oxysternon conspicillatum
A metallic green and copper dung beetle common in Amazonian forests. Males have a distinctive curved horn on the head....
Spanish Copris
Copris hispanus
A large shiny black dung beetle with a single curved horn on the males head. It constructs elaborate underground brood c...
Spring Dor Beetle
Geotrupes vernalis
A medium-sized, metallic blue-green to violet dung beetle active in spring. Unlike other dor beetles, the metallic color...
Stag-Horned Dung Beetle
Onthophagus rangifer
A small, dark brown tunneling dung beetle with spectacularly branched antler-like horns in major males. The branching ho...
Striped Dung Beetle
Paragymnopleurus striatus
A small to medium roller dung beetle with faint longitudinal striations on the elytra. It is black with a slightly conve...
Sweat Fly
Hydrotaea irritans
A small dark fly attracted to perspiration on humans and livestock. It forms dense head-circling swarms in summer that c...
Sylvicola Tunneler
Ontherus sulcator
A medium-sized, black tunneling dung beetle with deep longitudinal furrows on the elytra. Males have a short, broad ceph...
Tawny Emperor
Asterocampa clyton
A warm tawny-brown butterfly with dark bars and a row of small eyespots on the hindwing. Unlike most butterflies, it rar...
Tropical Warehouse Psocid
Liposcelis corrodens
A small wingless booklouse found in food stores throughout the tropics. It contaminates stored food with body fragments ...
Two-Horned Oxysternon
Oxysternon durum
A large, dark metallic green tunneling dung beetle with two prominent pronotal projections in males. The clypeus has a d...
Two-Spotted Dung Beetle
Onthophagus nuchicornis
A small, mottled brown and yellow tunneling dung beetle with two dark spots on the pronotum. Males have a single backwar...
Vacca Dung Beetle
Onthophagus vacca
A small coppery-green to bronze tunneler with a broad head and short horns in males. It is a common pasture dung beetle ...
Variable Dung Beetle
Onthophagus fracticornis
A small, highly variable tunneling dung beetle found across Europe. Coloration ranges from pale brown to nearly black wi...
Viceroy Butterfly
Limenitis archippus
Orange and black wings resembling the Monarch but with a black postmedian line across the hindwings. Once thought to be ...
Violet Dung Beetle
Oniticellus planatus
A small, distinctive dung beetle with a flattened body and yellowish elytra marked with dark spots. Despite being in the...
Watanabe Dung Beetle
Onthophagus watanabei
A small, brown tunneling dung beetle from Southeast Asian forests with distinctively elongated curved horns in major mal...
Wide-Headed Dung Beetle
Onthophagus nigriventris
A small, greenish-bronze tunneling dung beetle from East Africa with a very wide head in major males. The broad head is ...
Wide-Horned Scarab
Euoniticellus intermedius
A small, yellow-brown tunneling dung beetle with dark markings on the pronotum. Males have two short broad horns. It is ...
Woodland Dor Beetle
Anoplotrupes stercorosus
A medium-sized, convex dung beetle with a steel-blue or black dorsal surface and metallic blue-violet underside. Common ...
Wrinkled Rove Beetle
Oxytelus rugosus
A small, flattened rove beetle with a heavily sculptured pronotum bearing deep longitudinal furrows. It is one of the mo...
Zambesianus Scarab
Scarabaeus zambesianus
A nocturnal African roller dung beetle with a smooth, dark body. It was the first animal proven to use polarized light f...